Cape Agulhas Municipality
Cape Agulhas Municipality
Cape Agulhas is a coastal municipality (178 km of coastline) flanked by the Indian and Atlantic Oceans including where these oceans meet at the iconic southern tip of Africa at L’Agulhas.
The Cape Agulhas municipal area covers approximately 2411 km2 and includes the towns of Bredasdorp (the administrative seat of the municipality), Napier, Struisbaai, Arniston, Waenhuiskrans, L’Agulhas, Suiderstrand, Klipdale, Protem and Elim, a Moravian Mission town established in 1824.
The towns are surrounded by rural landscapes with characteristic wheat fields, natural fynbos, wetlands and coastal zone vegetation. The population size of the Cape Agulhas Municipality is 35 427 (average annual growth rate of 0.5%) with 10 802 households.
In 2019, the economy of Cape Agulhas was valued at R3.171 billion (ZAR) and employed 16 180 people. The finance, insurance, real estate and business services, wholesale and retail trade, catering and accommodation and transport, storage and communication sectors were the main drivers of the municipality’s recent positive economic growth. The Cape Agulhas Municipality ranks high on the Human Development Index, which is “a measure of peoples’ ability to live a long and healthy life, to communicate, participate in the community and to have sufficient means to be able to afford a decent living.”